razorshine
by riaz kanani
Archive for June, 2005
June 29, 2005 at 9:12 pm ·
Yes I know “Live Bookmarks” is a term already used by Firefox users, but for me, though RSS is a great technology and has a lot of potential, theres a slight adaptation of it which I think would make things much more useful. When you click on your “Favourites” menu, you see a list of websites - would it not be great to immediately see if they had been updated? Maybe make them bold or a different colour? I would call these Live Bookmarks. There’s no reason why this Live Bookmark cannot then expand to show the available content as Firefox does..
June 29, 2005 at 8:16 am ·
Interested in Civilization IV? you should go and have a look at civilisation anonymous.
It is quite obviously a fake website, ie a viral campaign initiated by Take 2 Games (confirmed in the dns records for civanon.org) but to be honest, it’s a bit of fun so who cares.. it’s not like they have tried to hide themselves which only makes the company look a fool when people do find out its fake..
It has some hilarious stuff in general on people who “play” civilisation and more importantly some screenshots that are not on the main website. The video is the best bit so make sure you catch that. It’s a shame that the video is in Quicktime format - have they not heard of Flash video???
Btw - you can see the official civilization 4 (aka civ 4!) website here.
[update] the site now has take 2 at the bottom of the site so guess they decided to “come clean”..
June 27, 2005 at 6:25 pm · Filed under: technology
I met up with the guys from Coremetrics last week and got a chance to look at their product. To quote from their website, they are the leading provider of hosted Web analytics and precision marketing solutions.
Anyhow, the product was impressive - it gives you a clear understanding of what is happening within your website and its related marketing campaigns. It is laid out according to what actual people are doing and what this means to you as the website owner, allowing you to improve your website and increase your target metrics (whether thats revenues, downloads, whatever). It wiped away years of geek terminology which meant very little and replaced it with real world metrics - this is the way we should have looked at analytics right from the beginning - it would have made offline companies’ online adoption cleaner and smoother.
June 23, 2005 at 7:33 pm ·
This is a great idea (click here) - a cross between the professional press organisations and wikinews, if only because it brings the ideas behind wikinews to the mainstream. Of course if you know about wikinews in the first place, you should just go there in the first place 
Unfortunately, and this has long been commented on as being the problem behind free unrestricted editing of content, that irritating (and small thankfully) section of the public ruined it by “inappropriate material”. Good luck to finding a solution which will solve this - being a paid subscriber is usually the only way to do this I suppose..
I wonder if wikinews will go the same way if it becomes mainstream?
Has wikinews already solved this?
(source: BBC News)
June 21, 2005 at 6:29 pm ·
Recently, I was shown the Rare FM website, which for those of you not in the know I helped set up with a bunch of other guys back in 1998 as the University College London radio station, so I have some form of attachment to it - mostly because I proceeded to stay involved in some shape of form for the following 3 years! Anyhow I thought I should give it a mention on here - you can listen online so what are you waiting for? 
There are music for all tastes.. though the university year is almost over so check back in September.. hmm 
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